21.2 Major Update Changelist (including, but not limited to)
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Stability and Technical
- Further changes to issues related to blurry text and mouse-cursor appearing misaligned
- Re-added options to change resolution settings in full screen mode
- Number of stability improvements
Gameplay
- Unable to set some staff members to certain responsibilities
- Improvements to player logic when considering loan moves when they don’t have a work permit
- Board incorrectly blocking deals due to wanting vast fees for players
- Recalculating how analysts produce their overall report ratings
- Caretaker manager tweaks, meaning they’re more likely to be offered permanent role or replaced depending on success
- Board request logic tweaks related to senior affiliates, staff numbers and youth coaching/recruitment
- Staff missing from coaching assignment list for relevant squads
- Further improvements to inactive leagues generating newgens (for more details read this post)
- Tweaks to ages of youth candidates coming through
- Improvements to logic of questions being asked during press conference including VAR, short term targets, takeovers and players on international duty
- Promise and interaction tweaks including related to player traits, domestic silverware, finding loan moves and blank ‘unhappiness’ appearing
Match Engine 21.4.0
- Better clearances
- Attackers attacking area/far post better
- Better balancing to defenders challenging for aerial balls
- Defenders marking too literally tweaks
- Move to offer passing options improvements
- Passing focus fix to long lateral passes
- Some improvements to aerial interceptions for defenders
- Sent assistant referees on training course to remove some overzealous offsides being given and sort positioning during penalties
- Improvements to ball collision detection with posts/crossbar
- Keeper logic improvements for narrowing shooting angles and rushing out
- Players less likely to slide tackle opposition players who are static
- For a more comprehensive list of match engine changes, please visit our Bugs Forum
Competitions and Rule Groups*
- Various rule updates for Croatia, Serbia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brazil, Uruguay, Romania, Russia and Scotland
- Fix for Croatian newgens not gaining homegrown status. All eligible newgens should now have homegrown status, even in old saves
- Croatian Second Division to have 16 teams for 21/22 season
- Cannot move players to B team in Finland "because the specific transfer window is now closed"
- Spanish and Portuguese B-Team promotion fixes
- Fix for B teams incorrectly appearing in the Italian Cup
- Fix so second teams present in the Romanian Second Division no longer enter the Champions Playoff
- Fix for Serbian Cup picking wrong entrants
- Copa America originally scheduled for 2020 will now be played in 2021.
- Further work to Chinese naturalisation
- Fixed issue related to Israeli squad numbers being forgotten
- Alterations for transfer / registration window dates in India and Romania
- Fix for rare occurrences of incorrect scheduling of league playoff stages in Colombia and Peru.
- Further tweaks to work permit and Brexit rules
- Third tier teams selected in Mexican Cup instead of Expansion League teams
- Updated US Cup Format
User Interface
- General improvements to watching Past Matches
- Live scores on the Touchline tablet no longer duplicating
- User can't view 1 Jan to 14 Feb on arranging friendlies UI
- Can't proceed into a match if pressing back on Team Selection panel when managing international side
- League name is Cut Off in 'History in The Making' during End of Season Review
- Team stats showing goals conceded to be 'worst' when it should be 'best'
- Changing manager appearance from the Start Screen does not remember any changes
- Tweaks to how role ability logic and ratings on tactics screen
- Removed any inconsistencies in how xG appeared on certain panels
Pre-Game and In-Game Editors
- Database items not appearing in imported Editor files
- In-Game Editor not appearing active when offline
- Further default basic nation rules fixes
- All columns disappearing in People section of Pre-Game Editor
- Tactical Attributes formation changes taking no effect